单词 | muckering |
释义 | † muckeringn. Obsolete. rare. Hoarding of money, miserliness. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > miserliness chincheryc1405 muckeringc1430 gnedeshipc1480 wretchedness1488 miserableness1522 misery1531 snudging1553 sordidity1584 snudgery1599 miserliness1645 nabalism1853 miserhood1867 miserdom1887 the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > hoarding muckeringc1430 hoarding1595 hiving1844 squirrelling1960 c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 35/2 Gif ony suilke..hantys to cum on nycht because of mukeryn [L. causa lucri vel mali ingenii] and taveryns his fysche in house by nycht the quhilk he sulde sell on the day [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). muckeringadj. Now English regional. 1. Mean, miserly; grudging, petty, selfish.In later use probably with admixture of sense 2 (cf. quot. a1903). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > storage > [adjective] muckeringa1525 hoardinga1616 magazininga1763 the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > miserly gnedy?c1225 miserable1484 misera1500 muckeringa1525 pinchpence1540 snudging1553 pinchpenny1582 miserly1593 mising1595 scraping1597 chuff-penny1603 wretched1652 nabalitic1653 skinflint1737 nippit1808 Scrooge-like1976 a1525 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Asloan) (1920) 20 Thai sell þar sonnis and aris for gold & gud Vnto ane mukrand carle for darest pryss. 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 182 For a muckering vile aduantage sake. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 37 A muckeren old fellow. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Muckering adj., hoarding, as a miser. a1903 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 188/2 Muckeren [miserly, covetous], only used of a miser whose penurious habits led him to live in a condition of a mucker—that is, with no-one to keep his house in order or tidy. 2. English regional (west midlands). Dirty, slovenly. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] uncleaneOE horyc1000 foulOE fennilicha1225 sutya1225 mixc1225 blackc1300 solwyc1325 bawdy1377 filthyc1384 nastyc1390 sowlyc1400 soryc1440 uncleanly1447 mossyc1450 dungyc1494 bedirted1528 slubberly?1529 filthish1530 deturpate?1533 mucky1538 stercorous1542 bluterc1550 dungish?1550 puddly1559 drumly1563 suddle1568 parbruilyiedc1586 sluttered1589 dirty1600 ordurous?1606 immund1621 turpie1633 sterquilinious1647 bruckled1648 cloacal1656 foede1657 stercorose1727 murky1755 sterquilinian1772 cloacinean1814 floy1820 poucey1829 stoachy1836 mullocky1839 muckering1841 sewery1851 dutty1853 dauby1855 cloacean1859 mucky1863 bilgy1878 cloacaline1879 muck-heapy1881 cloacinal1887 schmutzig1911 grufty1922 scabrous1939 mawkit1962 feechie1975 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 511 He lived always in a very muckering way. 1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) I like plenty o' clier waiter throwed down the dairy; none o' yore muckerin' work. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Muckerin wees [i.e. ways]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1430adj.a1525 |
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